Overall Campeche is very clean and straight forward in layout. We took a room at a fairly new facility offering a small pool we only used once because of the rain. The room was nice until someone in the neighbourhood decided to provide very loud boom boom music to everyone late one evening till after midnight.
Originally thought that Campeche might offer a long term winter holiday location but the beach is quite far from downtown.
I had a couple of local dinner specialties here. One was a Queso Rellano. It consists of a thick piece of gouda cheese on the bottom with about 2 to 3 inches of mixed ground beef and pork then a 1/2 inch slab of gouda cheese and covered in a cheese sauce. You can add a tomato sauce if you want to include a vegetable. At least 300 calories per bite.
The next delicacy was Papas Fritas. It is basically mashed potatoes stuffed with pieces of pork or bacon and cheese wrapped up in a tin foil ball. Quite bland and calorie laden.
The bus from Campeche took us to Merida where we caught another bus for the 45 minute ride out of the city to Progreso on the Yucatan coast.
Progreso is a city of about 60000. We had heard a lot of good things about the city as an expat place. We did meet a lot of Canadians and Americans that were staying here for long periods of time.We stayed 9 days and I think that was about 7 days too long. It does have a beautiful beach, no undertow and shallow for kids. It is undergoing a transformation to it's economy due to the arrival and increase in cruise ship visits.
We couchsurfed 2 nights at the house of a 67 year old lady from Washington State.She has a nice house and was starting her plans for leaving on a month trip to Europe with her daughter and family stationed in Germany.
Progreso like most Mexican cities is almost devoid of trees. Way to much concrete, especially in the heat and blazing sun.
We rented an apartment overlooking the beach. It started getting busier as the week progressed towards the weekend and Semana Santa or Holy Week. Progreso fills up with a lot of celebrators from Merida and other areas looking for beach time. There are small carnvals with rides and games at all the little beach towns as well.
Moving on from Progreso was a bus back to Merida and then a 4 hour trip across the Yucatan into Quintana Roo and the city of Cancun. we had bought our ticket for the bus earlier in the week because of the increase demand that occurs during Semana Santa.
We arrived in Cancun under showers prepared to go souvenir shopping and with 2 days to kill before flying out to Dallas and then Los Angeles. Our hotel was almost brand new, about $30 us per night (Reasonable for Cancun), well located and staffed by really helpful and friendly people.
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